Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Please inform that lady who found my letters to her husband that if she turns them over to my husband it won't do her any good because I already have confessed everything, and he has forgiven...
...FORGIVEN...
...Forgiven? J.B. is a banker, the richest man in town, respected by all and loved by his wife Sarah and their children, David, Mary, Jonathan, Ruth and Rebecca. They eat a Thanksgiving turkey, talk about God and gratitude. Then the disasters strike. Playwright MacLeish stage-manages them deftly with a tabloid editor's eye for sordid shock effect and a flexible poetic line to match. Two drunken soldiers blurt out news of the death of David; a news cameraman snaps a picture of J.B. and Sarah while a reporter is telling them that Mary and Jonathan have been killed...
...though Job's suffering were justified Not by the Will of God but Job's Acceptance of God's Will . . . He understood and he forgave it! . . . Who's the judge in judgment there? Who plays the hero, God or him? Is God to be forgiven...
Soberer citizens would have busied themselves running out the clock. But this was an afternoon on which the Irish could be forgiven anything. They were the last team to have beaten Oklahoma (in the opening game of 1953, 28-21), and the years between had left them a lot to atone for. Their young Coach Terry Brennan, 29. was literally fighting for his future. Last year he had led Notre Dame to its most disastrous season (2 won, 8 lost) since it started playing football in 1887. This season his team had begun by winning four straight...